[PD] Problems with text2d / text3d

James Dunn james at 4thharmonic.com
Tue Jan 12 17:31:50 CET 2010


Quoth IOhannes m zmoelnig, on 12/01/10 16:06:
> James Dunn wrote:
>   
>> Quoth IOhannes m zmoelnig, on 12/01/10 13:12:
>>     
>>>> So I tried using text3d, and
>>>> it crashes pd if I try to use fullscreen.     
>>>>         
>>> never encountered something like this (i have seen and run lot's of
>>> installations with [text3d] in fullscreen)
>>> are you sure it is related to [text3d], and not something else?
>>> does fullscreen work in general?
>>> does it still crash if you replace all the [text3d]s by a dummy
>>> abstraction [textdummy] (inlet->outlet)?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Well [text2d] used to work in fullscreen, as well as [pix_image] ->
>> [pix_texture] -> [rectangle]...
>>     
>
>
> i haven't found anything yet that works in windowed mode but not in
> fullscreen.
>
> an alternative would be to not switch to fullscreen but rather do
> [border 0, dimen 1024 768, offset 0 0(
>
>   

Nice idea - although I think the problem is solved.. see below
>>>> I running Ubuntu Karmic and Pd-0.42.5-extended20100111 (which I just
>>>> installed, but the problem was there in the previous version). My
>>>> graphics card is RV350 Mobility Radeon 9600 M10.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> which driver do yo use?
>>>   
>>>       
>> I think the driver is the problem - after some googling I tried an ATI
>> driver which really messed things up (no x server!). So I removed it and
>> now it's broken all of Gem! I guess this is a xorg / xserver issue so
>> not for this list perhaps, but if anyone can help, please let me know!!
>>     
>
> i really hate ATI cards (esp. since i'm just trying to get a friends
> all-in-wonder running via a remote connection)
>
>   
tell me about it! My graphics card is no longer supported by ATI, but I 
managed to configure xorg.conf to use xserver-xorg-video-radeon to use 
the radeon driver and now [text3d] works in fullscreen! It did crash 
once when I changed font though, but seems stable now. Thanks a lot for 
your help.

James

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